Email and Spam Filtering

Thunderbird Setup

Spam Filtering

The new puremessage spam filtering system seems to be working well, even with the low aggressiveness setting that was given to everyone. You can manipulate various email related functions with the coxeter commands:

Type any of the above commands followed by the word show (e.g. spamfiltering show) to see your current status, or followed by help for more information. For complete information about your spamfiltering setup you can type spamfiltering showall. Note that email forwarding and sending the vacation message happens after spam filtering so less spam should be sent from our system to remote addresses now (this has caused problems in the past).

There is now a (minimalistic) graphical interface to configuring your spam filter settings on coxeter called spamfiltering_gui. Please see the IT Status Blog article at Controlling spam in your email for more information.